Cordobese Union | |
Native Name: | Unión Cordobesa |
Secretary General: | Roque de Llano Iribarnegaray |
Leader: | Rafael Gómez Sánchez |
Headquarters: | Córdoba |
Foundation: | 2011 |
Dissolution: | March 2019 |
Position: | Right-wing populism |
Colours: | Green |
Seats1 Title: | City Council of Córdoba |
Country: | Spain |
Cordobese Union (Spanish; Castilian: Unión Cordobesa, UCOR) was a localist political party in Córdoba created by Rafael Gómez Sánchez ahead of the 2011 local elections.
Rafael Gómez (better known as "Sandokán"[1]) first made public his intention to create a political party for the municipal elections of 2011 in December 2010.[2] Cordobese Union won 24,805 votes and became the second political force in the city (the People's Party was the most voted one), gaining 5 seats in the City Council.[3]
In the local elections of 2015 UCOR lost around 15,000 votes and 4 seats. Rafael Gómez resigned from the City Council. He was replaced by Rafael Carlos Serrano Haro, his nephew.[4] Rafael Gómez currently faces a trial for 11 crimes against the Public Treasury for which the Prosecutor's Office asks for 44 years in prison.[5] In February 2017 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison for one of those crimes.[6]